As a result, it seems a bit fake, the inner fortress is dedicated to tourists only. Whatever, it feels really good to have again air conditionned, toilets like at home, restaurants with menus, people speaking English…

To reach our next destination, Boukhara, we need to cross about 500 km of desert (in Uzbek road scale, 500 km is a lot of hours, with bad roads and never-ceasing police controls). It’s so hot in day-time that we decide to stop halfway, we leave in the late afternoon, camp in the desert, and go back on the road early morning the day after.

Our Uzbek adventure ends in Tashkent, where we halt to get our Tadjik visas (mission accomplished in 1 day, so efficient!), withdraw a bit more dollars, make the first service of the bike and take some rest before leaving to the Tadjik mountains.